September, 2009

OpenNet Selects Alcatel-Lucent As The OSS/BSS System Integrator To Support Its Nationwide Fibre Network For Next Gen NBN

September 30th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Paris – Alcatel-Lucent recently announced that it has been selected by the OpenNet consortium, to be the System Integrator for its Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS and BSS) responsible for managing its nationwide all-fiber platform in the frame of Singapore’s Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN). Alcatel-Lucent will provide a turn-key solution to OpenNet, including software, hardware and professional services in support of OpenNet’s target NetCo operations and business models. Project will be completed in phases and full completion is targeted for July 2010.

The OpenNet consortium has been appointed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) as the Network Company (NetCo) to design, build and operate the fiber infrastructure for Singapore’s Next Gen NBN.

Alcatel-Lucent‘s turnkey OSS and BSS solution will meet equivalence of Input (EOI) requirements and create open access to OpenNet. The Solution will enable OpenNet to meet its contractual obligations towards IDA and run the operation in an efficient and fully automated manner at each stage of the activity cycles from the support of the initial fiber rollout to the most important aspect, providing services and handling the interactions with the Operating Companies (OpCos) and other Qualifying Persons (QPs).

“Alcatel-Lucent’s expertise in managing complex, IT System Integration projects will be a key asset to ensure the success of this strategic venture,” said Mrs. Tan Kah-Rhu, CEO of OpenNet. “Their extensive experience across the world in providing integrated OSS and BSS solutions will also help us meet our aggressive rollout schedule.”

Sean Dolan, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in Asia-Pacific, said, “OpenNet has chosen Alcatel-Lucent for its unique expertise combining IT, OSS/BSS, network integration, service delivery platforms (SDP) and multi-vendor application integration. Alcatel-Lucent is recognized as a technology leader, with a proven delivery track record and stable, effective and committed customer engagement team to support large and aggressive rollouts.”

Alcatel-Lucent’s solution is based on multivendor consulting and integration portfolio – which includes service delivery platforms (SDPs) based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) approach. The OSS/BSS solution comprises vital building blocks which enable the open access environment that is core to Singapore’s Next Gen NBN. Alcatel-Lucent’s next generation of business and operational support system solutions effectively expose these previously hidden building blocks in ways that enable players over the entire value chain of End User/RSP/OpCo/NetCo to multiply and proliferate leveraging the complete process automation.

Alcatel-Lucent is a worldwide leader in OSS/BSS and SDP serving more than 180 customers worldwide; Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner with knowledge, assets, and experience to deliver complex multivendor solutions with quality and innovation.

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Portable USB Serial Channel Buffer Packed with a LED Indication

September 29th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has announced the availability of its serial USB channel buffer, which is intended for the accumulation, reception and delivery of data. It accumulates data from devices via serial channel RS-232 and downloads data to a computer via a USB port. Its built-in flash memory capacity is 16 Mb and the buffer supports transfer rates of1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400 and 57600 bps in data acquisition mode. The USB serial channel buffer has low power consumption.

The serial channel buffer is a portable, compact instrument that does not require an external power source as it is powered through a COM or USB port. An LED indicates its working status and free memory of the buffer. The optimized buffer is shipped with data control software that allows for the setting and adjustment of all data parameters. It is compatible with Windows 98/ME/NT/2000 operating systems and provides for the user to conveniently control the reception and downloading of data.

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Multi-Functional E1/Datacom Tester for Field Use

September 26th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has launched its full-featured digital transmission system test device – E1/Datacom tester featuring a handheld design, smart navigation mode display and high resolution backlight LCD. This datacom tester is designed for the installation, testing, acceptance and daily maintenance of digital networks and is able to perform channel tests, alarm analysis, fault location and signal analysis. In addition, this tester provides various protocol converters with one-way and bi-directional bit-error-rate (BER) test functions. These capabilities make it ideal for field use.

This portable E1/datacom tester, model 5854, offers a number of practical functions such as frame data control and monitoring, time slot activity monitoring, handshaking signal control and monitoring, APS delay measurements and frequency measurements. Equipped with built-in NiMH rechargeable batteries and a smart charger circuit, the multifunctional tester can work continuously for up to six hours on a single charge and is charged with an automobile battery adapter. It saves and recalls up to 10 user-defined setups and 10 sets of results. Its software is easily upgraded via an integrated RS232C interface. Test results can be uploaded, conserved and printed using Test Manager Software.

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Practical 3Com Compatible 1000Base-T SFP Transceivers

September 23rd, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm provides its 3Com compatible 1000Base-T SFP transceiver for copper networks, which is a hot-pluggable I/O device that plugs into module sockets. The SFP transceivers connect the electrical circuitry of the module with optical or copper network and are fully compatible with original 3Com transceivers. The transceivers can be used in conjunction with any GBIC module supported by 3Com devices. They are designed for 10 Gigabit per second SONET/SDH, Fibre Channel, gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit Ethernet and other applications like DWDM links.

The transceiver, model 3CSFP93, features great flexibility: if the host device supports protocol transparency, one can build a tremendous variety of applications with a very small number of host system types. The transceiver also can be easily removed from the host device. It provides the maximum cable length for 1000Base-T SFP module copper connections of 100 meters and supports connection with patch cords with PC or UPC connectors.

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Portable Network Tester – A TDR and DMM in One Unit

September 22nd, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has added released its multi-functional portable network tester the which combines thesatisfiesincorporates all of the practical functions of many advanced testing instruments such asa Time-Domain Reflectometer (TDR) and Digital Multimeter (DMM) into a single device. This highly rugged network tester tests the cable length, breaks, and swinging cross within a maximum distance of 150m. This portable unit supports network layer tests such as Ping, Ipconfig, Tracert, and Route as well as conducting other tests such as AC or DC voltage, line capacitance, and line insulation. It is an ideal solution to openfor the installation and to maintainenance of the xDSL operations.

With a color TFT LCD, this 321 network tester displays the test results clearly. It is powered with an external adapter or by a built-in li-iion cell. The network testers embedded software is able to be automatically has the ability to upgraded to to the latest version. In addition, this portable network tester provides a 20M memory capacity and allows users to download test results directly to a PC or a USB diskdrive.

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Highly Portable and Rugged Fiber Optic Power Meter

September 21st, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has released this fiber optic power meter, which performs fast and accurate measurements. This well-designed meter is an ideal testing instrument for engineers working on single mode optical cable network installation, debugging and maintenance in telecommunications networks, CATV networks, and local network projects. Featuring a compact size, light weight and low power consumption, the meter ensures easy and efficient performance in taking field measurements.

This portable fiber power meter, model 3023, has a high resolution backlit LCD screen to clearly display data. It operates at a wavelength range from 780nm to 1700nm; the input range is -43dBm to 27dBm. The basic accuracy is ± 1%; both FC and SC connector are available for this meter. This cost-effective optical power meter works continuously for 20 hours on a full charge.

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Pigeon protocol offers faster data delivery

September 20th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

AN UNORTHODOX RACE in South Africa has revealed that it is faster to transmit 4GB of data via carrier pigeon than it is to send it over the country’s main ADSL services.

An IT company in Durban decided to hold a competition to test a theory once discussed over a watercooler. Would it be faster to use a carrier pigeon to send data than to use the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom? Bad news for Telkom – yes, it is.

In the race held yesterday between Howick and Hillcrest, a pigeon named Winston managed to transport a 4GB memory stick 60 miles in just two hours, the same amount of time it took the firm’s web connection to transmit just four percent of the data. Of course Telkom said that slow speeds at its customer end have nothing to do with it.

Overall though, estimates suggest that it would have taken days to send the data, which would have given Winston the winged rat loads of time to, er, decorate many statues of military heroes before finally turning up to claim his victory bread crust.

Like Telkom we can’t be sure what is wrong with the firm’s web connection, but old school methods of delivery have long been favoured by those in the know.

Some people still use the old practice of moving files between machines on floppy disks, remember them? And way back in the 1970s, Dr. Warren Jackson said, “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.” Nothing has changed, actually.

Winston the pigeon already has over 3,000 friends on Facebook. We don’t imagine that anyone at Telkom is one of them.

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High Performance Fiber Optic Power Meter

September 17th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has released its handheld fiber optic power meter equipped with an easy-to-read backlit LCD graphic display. It performs optical measurement of power and loss at 850nm, 980nm, 1310nm, 1480nm and 1550nm calibrated wavelengths. It is widely used in the engineering of LANs, CATVs and long-distance optical fiber trunks, and the R&D of fiber optics and passive and active optical devices.

GAO Tek’s portable fiber optical power meter, model XG3010, features auto-ranging, auto-zeroing, low power consumption, low-battery indication and single-mode and multi-mode measurement. This compact power meter offers three instant keys for convenient operation: ON/OFF, dB/μW key for switching between absolute power mode and relevant loss mode, and l key for viewing or setting references and changing measurement wavelengths. The fiber optical power meter incorporates a quick-connect universal adapter interface, which can accommodate any standard fiber optical connector such as FC-ST, FC-SC, FC-DIN or ST-SC via a corresponding adapter cap. Additionally, it automatically shuts down to conserve energy if there’s no action within ten minutes.

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Well-Designed and Handheld Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

September 16th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has announced the availability of its multi-functional optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) for use with CATV, ISP and telecommunication fiber networks. This portable OTDR is widely used for loss analysis and fault locating in the manufacturing, installation and maintenance of fiber optic networks and equipment.

The reliable OTDR, model 3620, features a compact size and large capacity battery that enables continuous operation for over 12 hours. The handheld OTDR displays the fiber’s length, attenuation coefficient, connection point, fault point and loss distribution curve. It provides two on screen markers that can be used to zoom in and out on curve details and automatically locate fault points then create a list. The portable OTDR supports up to six sets of test result comparisons simultaneously while any single result is observable. The test results and event analysis lists can be printed out through the print-screen-function, which also allows the user to upload the data to a PC. The easy-to-use device is able to measure 50km-long fiber within 30s with a high S/N ratio. In addition, the reliable OTDR can operate in harsh environments due to its robust design.

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High Speed Single Fiber Fusion Splicer

September 14th, 2009 Posted inGAO Comm News

Toronto, Canada – GAO Comm has added this compact and lightweight single fiber fusion splicer to its collection of fiber optical instruments. The typical splice loss of this innovative mechanical fusion splicer is only 0.1dB to 0.3dB. The single fiber fusion splicer can be used for dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF), non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZ-DSF), and erbium-doped fiber (EDF).

This single fiber fusion splicer, model 730, features simultaneous X and Y views, 256x magnification and a reversible monitor and a control panel on each side. The splice provides a short splicing time of eight seconds, and an impressive tube heating time (sleeve shrinking time) of 40 seconds. It supports different language options, including English, Chinese, Korean and Russian. The splicer can automatically adjust to environmental conditions with built-in temperature, humidity and pressure sensors which provide constant feedback signals to control the fusion arc temperature. It can detect the fiber end-face and adjust parameters automatically. Additionally, the splicer can store 8,000 groups of splice results.

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